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Silver and Black-Raiders 
Designed and Dressed by Clark Lucas

Silver and Black-Raiders

Pattern: Silver and Black-Raiders

Hook: Alex Jackson Spey Hook

Thread: Griffon's Griffon's 14/0, Black

Tag: Silver Oval Tinsel medium 4 wraps

Ribbing: Medium Flat Silver Tinsel, Oval medium Silver Tinsel, oval medium tied in under flat tinsel, two thread wraps to hold each. Four wrapped ribbing.

Counterwind: Small Oval Tinsel, counter wrapped, picking out BEP barbules as you go evenly spaced

Body: Paresell to even body, Uni-Yarn Black, looped tied in at head, to tail and back to head.

Spey Feather: Black dyed Blue eared Pheasant 1/2 stripped tied in at tail palmered to head.

Beard: Silver Pheasant 1/2 stripped butt first, 4 wraps.

Shellback: 1/4" Bronze Mallard strip, left strip tied in first, reverse thread, right strip tied, whip finishing each strip 3 wraps.

Head: Loon's Black hard head

Silver and Black-Raiders was tied by Contributing Fly Tyer, Clark Lucas, who began showing his flies on this site in 1999. Clark noted that this fly is tied in the colors (silver and black) of his favorite team, the Oakland Raiders.

You can read about Clark and see many more of his fine speys by visiting The Flies of Clark Lucas.

 

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